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Time-line: two years and eleven months after Naboo.

Phantasm 4: Danni Jet

Honestly, this one wasn't on her. Seriously! This time, it was Jazz shoving a bandanna and a jumpsuit at her and telling her to get to work. "What are you getting at?" Rae snapped, covering her hair with the bandanna and her diner clothes with the jumpsuit.

"I need a part timer and you're here. So get to it!" Jazz snapped back.

"Fine, but only if you help me set up an alias for a traveling mechanic," Rae said.

"Deal. What's her name?"

"Danni. Danni Jet," Rae answered, catching the wrench Jazz tossed at her head.

"That's a ridiculous name. It's perfect," Jazz said. "I'll get it added to the rest of your jumpsuits. Now get to work removing the intake manifold of that skyhopper would you?"

"Why is it always the intake manifolds and fuel injectors?" Danni muttered, setting to work. "And you're going to pay me, right?"

"For now? Your payment will be the false identity," Jazz countered. "After that, you'll get an in with mechanics and since yer asking for a false ID with mechanic cred, you know just what kind of gossip us grease monkeys can gather. That'll be pay on its own."

"Aye aye... but I expect some kind of actual pay, ya talking gearbox!" Danni groused, though the smile at the end of her statement served to take the sting out of her words. Jazz laughed.

"Sure sure, but it won't be much to start. False ID's aren't free ya know!"

"Aye, that I do," she said. "And it isn't quick either. Alright, you've got me for essentially free labor until a week after I get the papers for Danni."

"Deal!" Jazz crowed.

"But seriously, why is it always the intake manifolds and the fuel injectors?"

"People these days don't know how to take care of their own craft?"

"Please, even back home we had more interesting issues than just these two. Crushed fenders, bent axles, transmission, brakes, fuses, gearboxes... why do we not have more craft coming in with cracked windshields or glitchy repulsors or temperamental steering or malfunctioning atmospheric controls or something like that?"

"Less grousing more fixing," Jazz answered, which wasn't really an answer but Danni knew she wasn't going to get much more than that out of her old flying instructor.

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"So now I have an alias who's training to be a doctor and one who's a part-time worker at Jazz's and yet another one that's... supposedly an assassin," Rae groused to Dex.

"Do you want some records for that assassin? I'm guessing that if you made her up, she was talking to some dangerous people who would double check."

"I... guess a past for Lady Shiva would be helpful. Nothing substantial, just some rumors. Make sure you mention how Shiva saved one Jedi Master Dooku when she was just a teenager. It's my cover for why the guy either doesn't know me or wants me dead." Dex gave her a Look and she shrugged. "I was literally making stuff up on the spot, Dex. I was cold and annoyed and a beroya – a legit beroya, not just a Hunter – was staring me down and I knew I'd have to give something at least half-way credible." The large chef huffed, but seemed to drop it and went about his business.

"I'll drop a few lines in a few ears for you, Rae, but please, don't do anything too outrageous."

"I don't make promises I can't keep, boss man," Rae said before pulling herself to her feet.

"Oh, don't forget to set up an account for Danni!"

"Ugh... help me?" Her pitiful expression made Dex laugh, deep and loud.

"Yeah kid, I'll help you," he told her. The smile he got in return was a beautiful treasure the memory of which Dex would savor for years.

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A/N: Is this another short chapter just meant to set up her skills and alias for later? Yes. Will Danni be important later? Maybe, but like it said at the start; this one was all Jazz and Rae just decided to make it work for her. Besides, can you imagine what kind of gossip she could pick up working odd jobs in spaceports? Or how easy it would be for her to install listening/tracking devices in Ships of Interest as Danni? You can bet she'll be bugging the Disaster Trio's Starfighters and preferred shuttles with or without a war to worry about!